Residents of the world’s slums are battling to carve out a place in the cities of the future. Home to 900 million people — nearly 1 in every 7 people — slums are emerging as a “dominant and distinct type of settlement” in the ...

Pakistan has banned all Indian content on television and radio networks, media regulators said Thursday, its latest salvo after recent scuffles in the disputed Kashmir region spilled into the world of Bollywood and celebrity. The state-run media authority said in a statement it would ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi branded Pakistan a “mother-ship of terrorism” at a summit of the BRICS nations on Sunday, testing the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight member China is a close ally of its South Asian archrival. Modi’s remarks to a meeting ...

Pakistan’s media regulator has launched a crackdown on companies airing Indian television channels and content, officials said on Thursday, after an escalation of violence in the disputed Kashmir region between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Tension between the old rivals has been high since an Indian ...

The U.N.’s highest court on Wednesday narrowly threw out landmark cases brought by the tiny Marshall Islands against India, Pakistan and Britain for allegedly failing to halt the nuclear arms race. In majority and sharply divided decisions, a 16-judge bench at the International Court ...

Suspected militants opened fire on a military camp in Indian-administered Kashmir late Sunday, an army spokesman said, two weeks after a similar deadly attack that spiked tensions between arch rivals India and Pakistan. “Terrorists opened fire on an army camp in Baramulla town,” Col. ...

Pakistan's military must be brought under full civilian control and its links to all Islamist militants — including those directed against India and nurtured as such by the military-intelligence complex — severed.

Simmering anger over India’s crackdown on 10 weeks of protests in Kashmir risks drawing more young people to radical rebellion, demonstrators and security officials warn, as the sense of despair and alienation from New Delhi deepens. In the worst unrest in the disputed Himalayan ...